I am in good company, I suppose. Not sure whether I feel justified seeing that the UK's spelling is just as bad as ours or if I feel disillusioned.  : lol Don't you know that people with British accents get cast for all the smart roles in American cinema?

Can someone tell me why or offer a theory on what when wrong teaching, "You change the 'Y' to 'I' and add 'E-S'!"?

Lord, have mercy! There are so many bases from which to chose. I have no idea where to start. Measurements (especially non-Imperial ones) mean nothing to me on paper, so it's difficult to taste things in my head when I'm reading your recipes.

I worked in an American-Indian restaurant for a few years, and I evenhung out with the creepy chef because I soooo badly wanted his chicken-tikka masala recipe!  I've come close to it a few times, but I don't measure things.... It's often difficult to even remember all the ingredients I use.

I'm looking to be more scientific about the cooking process so I can duplicate good results... and so I can have a kick-ass base on hand so I don't have to start from scratch ever time I want to make a curry.

Can a rating system on the bases be implemented? I hesitate to ask "Which base should I try first?"' and get, like, 100 answers, leaving me where I am now.   

_{I'm so glad cilantro is cheap here, frequently 3 bundles for $1... Which is like, what? 3 bunches per half GBP? (my husband recently learned that cilantro and coriander are the same thing! lol. In the US cilantro is the herb and coriander is the seed. I didn't know the English word for cilantro for a long, long time since we use it and refer to it in terms of Mexican food.)}